This patch series is in response to the bug report in
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/4462 that demonstrates that
git commit -a -m <msg> would no longer always stage all updates to tracked
files. The bug has been introduced in Git v2.40.0.

Johannes Schindelin (3):
  do_read_index(): always mark index as initialized unless erroring out
  split-index: accept that a base index can be empty
  commit -a -m: allow the top-level tree to become empty again

 builtin/commit.c      |  7 ++-----
 read-cache.c          | 15 +++++++++------
 t/t2200-add-update.sh | 11 +++++++++++
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

base-commit: a9e066fa63149291a55f383cfa113d8bdbdaa6b3

Submitted-As: https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1554.git.1688044991.gitgitgadget@gmail.com